Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHonor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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